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Not always actions show the man we find who does a kindness is not therefore kind.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Beauty that shocks you, parts that none will trust, Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust.
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Our rural ancestors, with little blest, Patient of labor when the end was rest, Indulged the day that housed their annual grain, With feasts, and off'rings, and a thankful strain.
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A long, exact, and serious comedy In every scene some moral let it teach, And, if it can, at once both please and preach.
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Is it, in Heav'n, a crime to love too well? To bear too tender or too firm a heart, To act a lover's or a Roman's part? Is there no bright reversion in the sky For those who greatly think, or bravely die?
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Atheists put on false courage and alacrity in the midst of their darkness and apprehensions, like children who, when they fear to go in the dark, will sing for fear.
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Some praise at morning what they blame at night, but always think the last opinion right.
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At length corruption, like a general flood (So long by watchful ministers withstood), Shall deluge all and avarice, creeping on, Spread like a low-born mist, and blot the sun.
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The zeal of fools offends at any time.
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How Instinct varies in the grov'ling swine.
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When I die, I should be ashamed to leave enough to build me a monument if there were a wanting friend above ground. I would enjoy the pleasure of what I give by giving it alive and seeing another enjoy it.
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She went from opera, park, assembly, play, To morning walks, and prayers three hours a day. To part her time 'twixt reading and bohea, To muse, and spill her solitary tea, Or o'er cold coffee trifle with the spoon, Count the slow clock, and dine exact at noon.
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Party-spirit at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
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There is nothing wanting to make all rational and disinterested people in the world of one religion, but that they should talk together every day.
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The light of Heaven restore Give me to see, and Ajax asks no more.
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Extremes in nature equal ends produce In man they join to some mysterious use.
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But touch me, and no minister so sore. Whoe'er offends, at some unlucky time Slides into verse, and hitches in a rhyme, Sacred to ridicule his whole life long, And the sad burthen of some merry song.
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Oft, as in airy rings they skim the heath, The clamtrous lapwings feel the leaden death Oft, as the mounting larks their notes prepare They fall, and leave their little lives in air.
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Never find fault with the absent.
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Know then, unnumber'd Spirits round thee fly, The light Militia of the lower sky.
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